- The Book of Arda
Viraf (Middle Persian: Ardā
Wirāz nāmag, lit. 'Book of the
Righteous Wirāz') is a
Zoroastrian text
written in
Middle Persian. It contains...
- the
Zoroastrian tradition,
whether it be the Denkart, Tansar-nāma, Ardāy
Wirāz Nāmag, Bundahsin, Zand-i
Wahman yasn or the
transmitted oral tradition....
-
adventures of
young people living in the
casual estate. The
characters (****ny,
Wiraż, Niedzwiedź, Szopa, Kundzio) like
rough music, parties,
alcohol and other...
-
different set of texts, such as the
Shayest ne
shayest and the Book of Arda
Wiraz,
Ahriman and the dews were
utterly real, and are
described as
being potentially...
- This
article contains Persian text.
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Middle Persian, also
known by...
- and
either she or
Alexander himself set the fire going. The Book of Arda
Wiraz, a
Zoroastrian work
composed in the 3rd or 4th century,
describes ****polis'...
- the
journey to the
afterlife and back, like in the
Zoroastrian story of
Wiraz.
Apart from its
mythological side, the
legend of Ara and
Shamiram may reflect...
- Old
French garwaf ~ garwal(f) from Marie's lay of Bisclavret)
replacing *
wiraz ('man') with
vargr ('wolf, outlaw'),
perhaps under the
influence of the...
- Ērānšahr (3.11, 19; 15.22, etc.). A
single instance in the Book of Arda
Wiraz (1.4), also
preserves the
gentilic in ērān
dahibed distinct from the geographic...
- 'man-wolf' and
predecessor to
modern English werewolf.
Probably a
compound of *
wiraz ('man') and *wulfaz ('wolf').
Alternately derived from *wazi-wulfaz ('wolf-clothed')...
